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The Dietrich, Idaho locker room assault victim needs to matter to organizations in disability rights advocacy and mental health advocacy. He needs to matter to human rights advocacy groups. He needs to matter to civil rights groups, and groups advocating against hate crimes. He needs to matter to advocacy organizations that fight to help survivors of torture.
The silence from national disability advocacy organizations makes it clear that when it comes to crimes against disabled victims, Black lives don’t matter.
This silence is complete and familiar.
This silence is a further indignity on this 18-year-old African American disabled victim. What happened to this innocent Black victim screaming in a cold storage closet of locker room at a public high school didn’t matter to the prosecutor. It didn’t matter to the town’s football team. The victim’s lifelong trauma didn’t matter to the judge, who shouted insulting accusations at the victim’s parents in open … Continue Reading ››